Edward Tiffin

Edward Tiffin (19 June 1766-9 August 1829) was Governor of Ohio from 3 March 1803 to 4 March 1807, succeeding Charles Willing Byrd and preceding Thomas Kirker, and a US Senator from 4 March 1807 to 3 March 1809, succeeding Thomas Worthington and preceding Stanley Griswold. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Edward Tiffin was born in Carlisle, Cumbria, England in 1766, and his family emigrated to Virginia in 1783. Tiffin began to practice medicine at the age of 17, and he became a Methodist deacon in 1792. In 1798, Tiffin and Thomas Worthington settled in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Tiffin served as Speaker of the Northwest Territory House of Representatives from 1799 to 1802. In 1803, he became the first Governor of Ohio, serving until 1807, when he was elected to succeeding Worthington in the US Senate. He served until 1809, resigning after the death of his wife. He served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1809 to 1811, Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1812 to 1814, and Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory from 1815 to 1829, when he died.